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Kirkby Overblow
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The Ancient Parish of KIRKBY OVERBLOW
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"KIRKBY OVERBLOW, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Claro; (the seat of the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Marsham) 4 miles S. of Harrogate, 5½ miles from Wetherby, 6½ from Knaresborough, 20½ from York. Pop. including Swindon, 370, which being united, form a township. The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints (see Churches for photograph), in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, £20. 1s. 0½d. Patron, the Earl of Egremont.Kirkby Overblow, the orthography of which is Kirkby Ore Blowers, from its being within the vicinity of an Iron forge. --Whitaker's Ducatus Leodiensis. This village is situated upon an eminence on the north bank of the Wharfe.
Here is a small School for six poor children; the land originally appropriated to the support of which, consists of eleven acres."
Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.
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[Description(s) edited from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson © 2013]
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- The various donations for St. Helen's Church, Kirkby Overblow.
- Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
- All Saints' Church, Kirkby Overblow (view 1).
- All Saints' Church, Kirkby Overblow (view 2).
- Internal view looking down the nave
- Another internal view
- The Church of St. John the Evangelist, North Rigton (view 1).
- The Church of St. John the Evangelist, North Rigton (view 2).
- Internal view looking down the nave
- St. Peter's Church, Sicklinghall.
- Internal view looking down the nave
- The Roman Catholic Church, Sicklinghall.
- Internal view looking down the nave
- St. Mary's Church, Stainburn.
- Transcript of the entry for Kirkby Overblow in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Stainburn in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The History of Stainburn Church.
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Kirkby Overblow.
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Stainburn.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory and Gazetteer, Vol I, West Riding.
- There is further information about this parish from the National Gazetteer 1868, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Stephen Whatley's Gazetteer 1750, Yorkshire extracts.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Kirkby Overblow to another place.
- For a detailed map of this parish see this parish boundaries map.
- For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
- For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
- Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SE325492 (Lat/Lon: 53.937902, -1.506428), Kirkby Overblow which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- The World War I Memorial Plaque in St. Helen's Church, Kirkby Overblow.
- The World Wars I and II memorial in the churchyard at Sicklinghall.
- The following places are within the boundaries of this (ancient) parish, but I have no further information on them other than the Ordnance Survey Landranger Grid reference shown:
- (SE245490) Braythorn
- (SE333483) Barrowby
- (SE300512) Bunkers Hill
- (SE359467) Carlshead House
- (SE341466) Chapel Hill
- (SE344474) Clap Gate
- (SE315500) High Snape
- (SE327497) Low Hall
- (SE327474) Low Barrowby
- (SE337484) Lund Head
- (SE356473) Paddock House
- (SE285498) Rigton Lodge
- (SE366474) Sicklinhall House
- (SE370483) Skerry Grange
- (SE279488) Spout House
- (SE315481) Swindon Lodge
- This parish is covered by the following Society:
- A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.